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Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 1187–1205, 2016
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Speciated measurements of semivolatile and intermediate volatility
organic compounds (S/IVOCs) in a pine forest during
BEACHON-RoMBAS 2011
A. W. H. Chan1,a, N. M. Kreisberg2, T. Hohaus3,b, P. Campuzano-Jost4, Y. Zhao1,c, D. A. Day4, L. Kaser5,d, T. Karl6,
A. Hansel5, A. P. Teng2,e, C. R. Ruehl1,f, D. T. Sueper3,4, J. T. Jayne3, D. R. Worsnop3, J. L. Jimenez4, S. V. Hering2,
and A. H. Goldstein1
1Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA2Aerosol Dynamics Inc., Berkeley, California, USA3Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts, USA4Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA5Institut für Ionenphysik & Angewandte Physik, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria6National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USAanow at: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canadabnow at: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germanycnow at: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USAdnow at: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USAenow at: Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USAfnow at: California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, California, USA
Correspondence to: A. W. H. Chan ([email protected])
Received: 14 July 2015 – Published in Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.: 20 August 2015
Revised: 22 December 2015 – Accepted: 13 January 2016 – Published: 2 February 2016
Abstract. Understanding organic composition of gases and
particles is essential to identifying sources and atmospheric
processing leading to organic aerosols (OA), but atmospheric
chemical complexity and the analytical techniques available
often limit such analysis. Here we present speciated mea-
surements of semivolatile and intermediate volatility organic
compounds (S/IVOCs) using a novel dual-use instrument
(SV-TAG-AMS) deployed at Manitou Forest, CO, during the
Bio-hydro-atmosphere interactions of Energy, Aerosols, Car-
bon, H2O, Organics & Nitrogen – Rocky Mountain Biogenic
Aerosol Study (BEACHON-RoMBAS) 2011 campaign. This
instrument provides on-line speciation of ambient organic
compounds with 2 h time resolution. The species in this
volatility range are complex in composition, but their chem-
ical identities reveal potential sources. Observed compounds
of biogenic origin include sesquiterpenes with molecular for-
mula C15H24 (e.g., β-caryophyllene and longifolene), which
were most abundant at night. A variety of other biogenic
compounds were observed, including sesquiterpenoids with
molecular formula C15H22, abietatriene and other terpenoid
compounds. Many of these compounds have been identi-
fied in essential oils and branch enclosure studies but were
observed in ambient air for the first time in our study.
Semivolatile polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and
alkanes were observed with highest concentrations during
the day and the dependence on temperature suggests the
role of an evaporative source. Using statistical analysis by
positive matrix factorization (PMF), we classify observed
S/IVOCs by their likely sources and processes, and charac-
terize them based on chemical composition. The total mass
concentration of elutable S/IVOCs was estimated to be on
the order of 0.7 µg m−3 and their volatility distributions are
estimated for modeling aerosol formation chemistry.
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1 Introduction
Large amounts of biogenic volatile organic compounds
(BVOCs) are emitted by vegetation into the atmosphere.
While some BVOCs are relatively unreactive (such as
methanol and acetone), terpenoid compounds, such as iso-
prene, monoterpenes (C10H16) and sesquiterpenes (C15H24),
are highly reactive and have large effects on local and global
atmospheric chemistry (Hallquist et al., 2009; Williams,
2004). BVOCs undergo oxidation reactions to produce ozone
in polluted regions (Chameides et al., 1988). These reactions
also lead to low-volatility species, which are thought to be the
dominant source of global secondary organic aerosol (SOA)
(Griffin et al., 1999b; Henze and Seinfeld, 2006). Therefore,
to understand current and future air quality and global cli-
mate, it is important to measure the chemical composition
and atmospheric concentrations of these reactive BVOCs.
There has been ample evidence that currently not all reac-
tive BVOCs are measured in the atmosphere of forests. For
example, the reactivity against oxidants, such as the hydroxyl
(OH) radical and ozone, is often used as a proxy for total
amount of reactive hydrocarbons. Many field studies have
shown that measured BVOCs contribute only a fraction of
the total OH reactivity, indicating incomplete understanding
of reactive BVOCs (Di Carlo et al., 2004; Kim et al., 2011;
Sinha et al., 2010; Nölscher et al., 2012). The discrepancy be-
tween total and expected OH reactivity depends strongly on
temperature or plant stress, evidencing that biogenic emis-
sions are likely responsible for the “missing” OH reactivity
(Di Carlo et al., 2004; Nölscher et al., 2012). Similarly, ozone
deposition in a pine forest appears to be dominated by re-
active losses with BVOCs, but cannot be accounted for by
currently measured species (Goldstein et al., 2004; Kurpius
and Goldstein, 2003). Globally, the annual SOA production
has been constrained to be around 150 Tg C yr−1 in various
studies using mass balance (Goldstein and Galbally, 2007),
satellite observations (Heald et al., 2010), and aerosol mass
spectrometer measurements (Heald et al., 2011; Spracklen
et al., 2011). However, global models using existing VOC
emission inventories predict annual SOA production to be
around 40 Tg C yr−1 (Hallquist et al., 2009). It is there-
fore likely that a potentially large pool of SOA-producing
VOCs is missing from current models (Goldstein and Gal-
bally, 2007). One modeling study indicates that an addi-
tional source of biogenically derived (anthropogenically con-
trolled) SOA around 100 Tg yr−1 is needed to match observa-
tions by aerosol mass spectrometers (Spracklen et al., 2011),
highlighting the need to properly account for biogenic SOA-
producing sources. Recent evidence suggest that a group of
extremely low-volatility organic compounds (ELVOCs) may
be a significant contributor to SOA in forest atmospheres
(Ehn et al., 2014; Jokinen et al., 2015).
Most published BVOC research efforts have focused on
studying the emissions and oxidation chemistry of isoprene,
2-methyl-3-butene-2-ol (MBO) and monoterpenes, owing to
their abundance. Other less volatile and often more reac-
tive BVOCs, such as sesquiterpenes, are challenging to mea-
sure and are present in lower concentrations (Duhl et al.,
2008; Pollmann et al., 2005). However, sesquiterpenes are
highly reactive and can be a significant contributor to re-
active loss of ozone in the forest canopy (Bouvier-Brown
et al., 2009a, b; Jardine et al., 2011; Bourtsoukidis et al.,
2012). Also, sesquiterpenes belong to a group of com-
pounds known as intermediate volatility organic compounds
(IVOCs), which have saturation concentrations, c∗, between
103 and 106 µg m−3 (Donahue et al., 2009). Together with
semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs, c∗ between 1 and
100 µg m−3), S/IVOCs have lower volatilities than traditional
BVOCs, and are therefore more efficient SOA precursors.
For example, sesquiterpenes have significantly higher SOA
mass yields than monoterpenes (Chen et al., 2012; Griffin
et al., 1999a; Lee et al., 2006a, b; Ng et al., 2007). These
properties of sesquiterpenes (low concentrations, high reac-
tivity, line losses) present significant analytical challenges,
but measurements of these reactive, less volatile compounds
are essential for understanding their sources and chemistry.
Previous speciated measurements of SVOCs and organic
aerosols in forests have involved collecting filter samples for
offline analysis (Kallio et al., 2006; Rissanen et al., 2006).
The collection times are typically long (24 h) and subject
to compound degradation on filters (e.g., by reaction with
ozone) (Rissanen et al., 2006). Also, atmospheric processes,
such as transport and oxidation, occur on shorter timescales.
In situ measurements of organic species are needed to min-
imize artifacts associated with sample collection, transport
and storage, and to capture and help identify emissions
sources and atmospheric processes that vary on the timescale
of hours (Bouvier-Brown et al., 2009b; Worton et al., 2011).
In this work, in situ measurements of S/IVOCs were made
in a pine forest during the BEACHON-RoMBAS field study.
One of the objectives of the BEACHON-RoMBAS field
study (and of this study) is to understand the biogenic and an-
thropogenic volatile organic compound emissions and their
influences on regional atmospheric chemistry through chem-
ical speciation (Ortega et al., 2014). Here we present hourly
and bihourly speciated measurements of S/IVOCs and their
tentative identifications to achieve this objective. Using sta-
tistical analysis by positive matrix factorization (PMF), we
classify observed S/IVOCs by their likely sources and pro-
cesses, and characterize them based on chemical composi-
tion. Their volatility distributions are estimated for modeling
of aerosol formation chemistry.
2 Experimental methods
2.1 Field location
The measurements presented in this work were conducted
as part of the Bio-hydro-atmosphere interactions of En-
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cell
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Heated transfer line
HR-ToF-AMS
Prefocusing trap
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He
Ball valve
Standard injection
Charcoal denuder
Sampling pump
6 diameter sampling duct
1. Sampling 2. Thermal desorption and prefocusing
3. Injection and GC analysis
Figure 1. A schematic of the SV-TAG sample introduction system into the HR-ToF-AMS. The arrows in black, red, and green denote the
flow paths during sample collection, thermal desorption and prefocusing, and injection into GC/MS analysis, respectively.
ergy, Aerosols, Carbon, H2O, Organics & Nitrogen (BEA-
CHON) project, which seeks to understand the chemistry
of gas and aerosol species in a mountainous semi-arid for-
est (Ortega et al., 2014). The field site, known as the Mani-
tou Experimental Forest Observatory (MEFO, 39◦6′2.16′′ N,
105◦5′39.12′′W), is located in the Front Range of the Col-
orado Rocky Mountains (Ortega et al., 2014). The wind pat-
terns in this area are influenced by topographically induced
flow. Nighttime flow below the canopy is often westerly or
southwesterly, resulting in cleaner air arriving at the site from
the forest. The vegetation in the area is mainly comprised of
ponderosa pine and other conifers, with MBO and monoter-
penes being the most abundant VOCs observed (Ortega et al.,
2014). The average canopy height is 16 m. Local chemistry is
affected by urban emissions, as upslope flows from the north-
east and the southeast are consistently observed, transport-
ing air from Denver and Colorado Springs. Measurements
presented in this work were conducted during the summer
of 2011 between 19 and 30 August as part of BEACHON-
RoMBAS (Rocky Mountain Biogenic Aerosol Study). More
details about the MEFO field site and the BEACHON project
are described in a recent overview paper (Ortega et al., 2014).
2.2 SV-TAG-AMS: speciated semivolatile organic
measurements by GC/MS (SV-TAG)
The purpose of the combined Thermal desorption Aerosol
Gas chromatography – Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (TAG-
AMS) instrument is to provide simultaneous speciated and
bulk measurements of aerosol particles (Williams et al.,
2014). Here we deploy a custom version of TAG-AMS
for sampling and analyzing S/IVOCs (Zhao et al., 2013b),
known as the Semi-Volatile Thermal desorption Aerosol
GC/MS (SV-TAG-AMS). This work will focus on the spe-
ciated measurements of gas- and particle-phase organics. In
this manuscript, we will refer to the combined instrument as
SV-TAG-AMS, and the semivolatile GC/MS providing spe-
ciated organic measurements as SV-TAG. Specifically, we in-
corporate a few novel components into the system to improve
performance and enable more quantitative analysis. These
new components include (1) filter collection and thermal des-
orption cell (F-CTD) for gas- and particle-phase collection,
(2) a GC system with on-column heating and (3) a custom-
built transfer line into the AMS. Components 2 and 3 will be
incorporated into subsequent TAG-AMS configurations. The
configuration of this instrument is illustrated in Fig. 1.
Samples were collected through a 15.2 cm diameter in-
let sampling air 4 m above ground, while still under the
canopy. The flow through the inlet was maintained by a fan
pulling through a restriction at 150–200 L min−1 as mea-
sured by the pressure drop across an iris valve. During sam-
pling, a subsampling flow of 10 L min−1 was drawn from
the middle of the large inlet and through the collection cell.
The filter collection and thermal desorption cell (F-CTD)
is made of SS fiber filter and therefore has a high surface
area (≈ 1700 cm2) for efficient collection and thermal trans-
fer of S/IVOCs (Zhao et al., 2013b). Organic gases adsorb
efficiently onto the filter surface, and particles are collected
by filtration. The sample collection time was 30 min for the
first 3 days, and 90 min subsequently. After sample collection
was complete, organic compounds were thermally desorbed
in helium at 320 ◦C and transferred via a valveless interface
to a focusing trap before injection into a GC column for anal-
ysis. Details of the valveless interface and SV-TAG instru-
ment are described by Zhao et al. (2013b). The total time
for filter desorption and GC analysis is 30 min. As a result,
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Figure 2. Total ion chromatogram of a typical sample. Deuterated internal standards (labeled in red) were injected prior to thermal desorption.
The labeled compounds represent a subset of the compounds identified. More compounds were identified using the selected ion traces. A
partial list of compounds tentatively identified is shown in Table 1, and the full list is shown in Table S1 in the Supplement.
the total sample turnaround time (sample collection + filter
desorption + GC analysis) is 60 min (hourly time resolution)
for the first 3 days, and 120 min (bihourly time resolution)
subsequently.
Gas chromatographic separation was performed using a
VICI Fast GC system (VICI, Houston, TX), which consists
of a nickel clad GC column. The carrier gas is helium, and the
column is a DB5-type column with a length of 15 m and an
internal diameter of 0.18 mm and a film thickness of 0.25 µm.
The column is resistively heated by applying a small current
through its entire length, thereby eliminating the need of a
column oven and reducing the instrument’s power and space
requirements. The column then interfaces with the AMS and
delivers the effluent of the GC to the AMS electron impact
ionizer via a custom-built transfer line heated to 320 ◦C. De-
tails of the transfer line connection to the AMS are described
by Williams et al. (2014).
2.3 SV-TAG-AMS: bulk particle composition by
HR-ToF-AMS (AMSTAG)
This dual instrument is capable of bulk particle analysis by
HR-ToF-AMS and S/IVOC collection on SV-TAG simulta-
neously. During S/IVOC collection on the SV-TAG cell, par-
ticles are introduced through the aerodynamic lens in the va-
porizer/ionizer region in the AMS, and bulk particle compo-
sition is analyzed by electron impact high-resolution time-of-
flight mass spectrometry (DeCarlo et al., 2006). We will refer
to this analysis as AMSTAG, which includes measurements of
sulfate and organic mass concentrations by HR-ToF-AMS on
the combined SV-TAG-AMS system.
Upon completion of TAG sample collection, the sampling
valve on the AMS inlet is closed and the chopper is moved to
block the particle beam. AMSTAG analysis is therefore briefly
paused, and the TAG sample is introduced through the GC
and the transfer line to the same ionizer and mass spectrome-
ter. While the bulk particle composition analysis by AMSTAG
is not the focus of this work, we demonstrate in the Supple-
ment (Fig. S5 and S6 in the Supplement) that the organic and
sulfate mass concentrations measured by AMSTAG are within
10 and 5 % of those measured by a collocated stand-alone
HR-ToF-AMS (referred to as AMSSTD), respectively, indi-
cating that the TAG inlet does not affect AMS operation, and
the SV-TAG-AMS is capable of simultaneous bulk aerosol
and speciated gas/aerosol measurements.
2.4 Calibration and analysis of chromatographic data
Compounds are first screened from peaks resolved in the
total ion chromatogram, such as those shown in Fig. 2. In
addition to these peaks, many more compounds are speci-
ated from resolved peaks in the extracted ion chromatograms
(chromatograms of select ion traces). Authentic standards
(containing 34 compounds) injected during periodic calibra-
tions are used to identify some compounds. For identify-
ing other compounds, the background-subtracted mass spec-
tra are matched to those in several mass spectral libraries,
including the 2008 NIST/EPA/NIH mass spectral library,
Adams essential oil library (Adams, 2007) and a proprietary
library from MANE, a flavor and fragrance company. Match
factors (Stein, 1994) of greater than 800 (out of 1000) are
considered a good match for tentative identification. In some
cases (such as alkanes and sesquiterpenes), isomers are found
to yield match factors of 700–800. In those cases, while
positive identification is not possible, information about the
molecule type (such as alkane or sesquiterpene with molecu-
lar weight 204 amu) is still provided and compound naming
reflects such information. Where available, literature reten-
tion indices are used to confirm or reject compound identifi-
cation. The GC retention index of an organic compound i is
defined as
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RIi = 100×
[n+ (N − n)
(ti − tn
tN − tn
)], (1)
where n is the number of carbon atoms in the linear alkane
eluting immediately before compound i, and N is that in the
alkane eluting immediately after compound i, and t is the re-
tention time. For example, n-tetradecane would have a reten-
tion index of 1400. Observed compounds are distinguished
from cell desorption artifacts using periodic zero air blanks
(passing ambient air through a charcoal filter into collection
cell for 90 min) and cell blanks (desorbing a cell with no sam-
ple collection). Zero air blanks were conducted once every 2
days, and cell blanks were conducted once every day at dif-
ferent hours of the day. Trace amounts of fluorocarbons are
found to be present even during blanks, likely arising from
fluoroelastomer seals in solenoid valves. A full list of com-
pounds identified in the ambient atmosphere is shown in Ta-
ble S1 in the Supplement (partial list in Table 1). All mass
concentrations are reported in nanograms per cubic meter
of air sampled at standard conditions (298 K, 1 atm), abbre-
viated as ng sm−3. Sesquiterpenes are also reported in pptv
for comparison with PTR-TOF-MS data, by multiplying the
mass concentration in ng sm−3 by 204/24.45.
An automated standard injection system is used to deliver
internal standards into the collection cell onto every sam-
ple immediately prior to thermal desorption (Isaacman et al.,
2011a). The internal standards consist of deuterated com-
pounds covering a wide variety of functional groups (alka-
nes, alkenes, aldehydes, ketones and polycyclic aromatic hy-
drocarbons, or PAHs). Periodic calibrations are conducted
using a representative range of available organic compounds
as external standards. The lists of external and internal stan-
dards are summarized in Tables S2 and S3 in the Supplement.
While we do not have authentic standards for all the com-
pounds quantified, surrogate standards are assigned in an op-
timized manner based on similarities in molecular structure.
For each compound, its ionization efficiency (and hence, cal-
ibration factor) is assumed to be same as that of the assigned
surrogate standard. Mass concentration of each compound is
obtained by multiplying the observed signal (normalized by
signal of the internal standard) by the calibration factor ob-
tained during calibrations.The assignment of surrogate and
internal standards is listed in the Supplement. Extraction and
analysis of TAG data was performed using custom written
code in Igor Pro (Wavemetrics). High-resolution data fitting
procedures are adapted from those written for HR-ToF-AMS
analysis (DeCarlo et al., 2006) for GC/MS data (Isaacman
et al., 2012). Raw time-of-flight data are reconstructed using
Gaussian peaks centered at exact masses for a specified list
of ions. Ions considered include CxH+y , CxHyO+, CxHyO+2(up tom/z 250) and other inorganic ions (such as H2O+, N+2 ,
O+2 ). Since measurements of highly oxygenated compounds
are typically not quantitative with GC/MS, ions containing
more than two oxygen atoms are not considered in this anal-
ysis.
2.5 Source apportionment using positive matrix
factorization (PMF)
PMF is used to apportion speciated organic compounds to
identify emission and processing sources. PMF is a source
apportionment model. The PMF model assumes a linear mix-
ing model, where the observed concentrations of multiple
species are a time-varying linear combination of contribu-
tions from multiple independent sources with constant com-
position profiles (Paatero and Tapper, 1994):
xij =∑p
gipfpj + eij , (2)
where xij is the observed concentration of species i at time
j , gip is the contribution of species i to factor p, fpj is the
mass concentration of factor p at time j and eij is the residual
error. Each factor p is interpreted to be a group of covary-
ing compounds that originate from the same source or un-
dergo similar transformation processes. The model is solved
by minimizing the residual eij weighted by the measurement
precision σij :
Q=∑i
∑j
(eij
σij
)2
. (3)
The objective function Q is minimized using the PMF2 al-
gorithm operated in the PMF2.exe program (Paatero, 2007),
and the results are interpreted using the PMF Evaluation Tool
(PET) Panel (Ulbrich et al., 2009).
Estimates of measurement precision (σij ) play an impor-
tant role in PMF solutions. Here we expect that imprecision
in chromatographic peak integration is the dominant source
of measurement uncertainty. As a result, we use the range of
peak areas calculated for drawing different baselines for peak
integration as the standard error used in the model (see Sup-
plement). We treat missing data points using the approach
described by Zhao et al. (2013a). For missing data points,
we assign a measurement value of one-third the detection
limit, and the uncertainty was assigned to be four times that
concentration. Only compounds that are above the detection
limit more than 50 % of the time were included in PMF anal-
ysis. Unlike in previous work (Williams et al., 2010; Zhao
et al., 2013a), no attempt is made in this work to reconstruct
total organic mass, since, unlike OA, there were no overlap-
ping measurements of total S/IVOC gases.
2.6 PTR-TOF-MS
Measurements of selected gas phase species by SV-
TAG were qualitatively compared to those by proton-
transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-
TOF-MS). Details of the instrument and its deployment at
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Table 1. A partial list of compounds measured during BEACHON-RoMBAS 2011. A full list of identified compounds and comparison to
literature retention indices are shown in the Supplement.
Compound Retention index Median concentration, ng sm−3 Median concentration, pptv
(10th–90th percentile) (10th–90th percentile)
Alkanes
n-tetradecane 1401 0.7 (0.4–1.3) 0.09 (0.05–0.16)
Branched alkane isomer 1463 0.4 (0.3–0.7) 0.05 (0.03–0.08)
n-Pentadecane 1500 0.9 (0.6–1.3) 0.10 (0.07–0.15)
n-Hexadecane 1600 0.9 (0.7–1.3) 0.10 (0.07–0.14)
n-Heptadecane 1700 0.5 (0.3–0.9) 0.05 (0.03–0.09)
Pristane 1706 0.3 (0.2–0.4) 0.03 (0.02–0.04)
n-Octadecane 1800 0.4 (0.2–0.7) 0.03 (0.02–0.06)
n-Nonadecane 1900 0.6 (0.3–1.0) 0.05 (0.03–0.09)
n-Eicosane 2000 0.5 (0.3–0.7) 0.04 (0.02–0.06)
n-Heneicosane 2101 1.0 (0.6–1.4) 0.08 (0.05–0.11)
n-Docosane 2200 0.9 (0.6–1.5) 0.07 (0.05–0.11)
n-Tricosane 2300 1.3 (1.0–1.8) 0.10 (0.07–0.13)
n-Tetracosane 2400 1.0 (0.7–1.3) 0.07 (0.05–0.09)
n-Pentacosane 2500 0.5 (0.4–0.7) 0.03 (0.03–0.04)
PAHs
Biphenyl 1378 0.4 (0.3–0.7) 0.07 (0.05–0.11)
Naphthalene, 1,6-dimethyl- 1421 0.2 (0.1–0.4) 0.03 (0.01–0.06)
Naphthalene, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-
5,6,7,8-tetramethyl- 1522 0.7 (0.4–1.2) 0.10 (0.06–0.16)
Fluorene 1583 0.3 (0.1–1.1) 0.05 (0.02–0.16)
Phenanthrene 1782 0.9 (0.4–2.4) 0.12 (0.06–0.33)
Anthracene 1793 0.4 (0.2–0.5) 0.05 (0.03–0.07)
Fluoranthene 2066 0.4 (0.2–0.9) 0.04 (0.02–0.10)
Pyrene 2119 0.3 (0.2–0.4) 0.04 (0.02–0.05)
Chrysene 2470 0.7 (0.6–0.9) 0.07 (0.06–0.09)
Oxygenated PACs
Dimethoxybenzaldehyde isomer 1435 0.7 (0.3–1.8) 0.10 (0.05–0.27)
Dibenzofuran 1516 1.2 (0.5–4.7) 0.17 (0.07–0.68)
Benzophenone 1630 0.2 (0.2–0.3) 0.03 (0.02–0.04)
9H-Xanthene 1636 0.2 (0.1–0.7) 0.03 (0.01–0.09)
9H-Fluoren-9-one 1739 1.0 (0.4–3.3) 0.14 (0.06–0.45)
Anthraquinone 1973 0.9 (0.5–1.9) 0.10 (0.06–0.23)
Sesquiterpenes and terpenoids
Longifolene 1392 0.5 (0.1–1.1) 0.05 (0.02–0.13)
β-caryophyllene 1412 1.1 (0.3–2.6) 0.13 (0.04–0.31)
Alloaromadendrene 1470 0.8 (0.4–1.7) 0.09 (0.05–0.20)
β-vatirenene isomer 1471 0.4 (0.2–0.9) 0.04 (0.02–0.11)
Unknown SQT204 1481 0.6 (0.4–0.8) 0.07 (0.05–0.10)
α-Muurolene 1504 0.3 (0.1–0.6) 0.03 (0.02–0.07)
Cuparene 1511 1.0 (0.5–1.9) 0.12 (0.06–0.23)
Calamenene 1528 3.0 (1.2–8.0) 0.36 (0.14–0.96)
Cadina-1(10),6,8-triene 1593 0.3 (0.1–0.6) 0.03 (0.01–0.07)
Cadalene 1680 2.2 (1.1–5.0) 0.27 (0.13–0.61)
18-norabieta-8,11,13-triene 2026 0.4 (0.2–0.6) 0.03 (0.02–0.06)
Other oxygenated compounds
Coumarin 1436 0.9 (0.6–1.5) 0.14 (0.10–0.24)
Dodecenoic acid isomer 1536 3.0 (1.4–6.6) 0.37 (0.18–0.81)
(+)-Longicamphenylone 1569 1.3 (0.4–3.3) 0.15 (0.04–0.39)
Tetradecenoic acid isomer 1737 3.1 (1.3–6.6) 0.33 (0.14–0.71)
2-Pentadecanone, 6,10,14-trimethyl- 1844 1.6 (1.2–2.4) 0.15 (0.11–0.22)
Hexadecenoic acid isomer 1941 1.7 (0.9–4.3) 0.16 (0.09–0.41)
Manoyl oxide 2004 0.5 (0.3–0.6) 0.04 (0.03–0.05)
Dehydroabietic acid, methyl ester 2346 0.6 (0.3–0.9) 0.04 (0.03–0.07)
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BEACHON-RoMBAS are described in a recent publication
(Kaser et al., 2013). The PTR-TOF-MS inlet was at a height
of 1 m above ground, and approximately 25 m away from the
SV-TAG inlet horizontally in an area with an uneven distri-
bution of trees. In brief, the PTR-TOF-MS measures a wide
variety of VOCs using hydronium ions (H3O+) as reagent
ions (Graus et al., 2010). In this work, the PTR-TOF-MS
measurements at the 1 m inlet were used for comparison.
Owing to the difference in sampling methods and inlet lo-
cations, only qualitative comparisons were made for reactive
compounds such as sesquiterpenes.
3 Intermediate and semivolatile organic compounds
Shown in Fig. 2 is the total ion chromatogram for a rep-
resentative sample. Since the GC column used is a nonpo-
lar DB5-type column, compounds are separated by volatility,
with compounds eluting in the order of decreasing volatility.
Organic compounds with volatilities equal to or lower than
biphenyl (c∗ > 2×105 µg sm−3, where the notation sm−3 de-
notes per standard cubic meter at a temperature of 298 K
and pressure of 1 atm) are reliably trapped by the focus-
ing trap and can be quantified. We have optimized this sys-
tem to focus on organic compounds with volatilities ranging
between those of tetradecane and pentacosane, whose sat-
uration concentrations, c∗, are on the order of 1× 105 and
1 µg sm−3, respectively (Pankow and Asher, 2008). Using the
procedures described in the previous section, 81 compounds
have been tentatively identified as ambient compounds with
no detectable signals during blanks. We classify the identi-
fied compounds into a few general groups: sesquiterpenes,
higher order terpenoids, alkanes, PAHs, oxygenated PAHs,
and other oxygenated compounds.
3.1 Sesquiterpenes (C15H24 and C15H22)
Sesquiterpenes are known to be emitted from various vegeta-
tion (Duhl et al., 2008), including agricultural crops (Ormeño
et al., 2010), conifers (Bouvier-Brown et al., 2009b; Helmig
et al., 2006), shrubs (Helmig et al., 1999), flowering plants
(Chen et al., 2003) and even pathogens (Fravel et al., 2002).
Previous studies have focused on sesquiterpenes with molec-
ular formula C15H24 and molecular weight of 204 amu. In
this work we refer to these sesquiterpenes as “SQT204”.
They are highly reactive, with atmospheric lifetimes of less
than an hour (Atkinson and Arey, 2003). In addition, owing
to their low vapor pressures and multiple rings and double
bonds, they are efficient SOA precursors (Lee et al., 2006a,
b). Here we are able to separate 7 isomers of SQT204. It is
generally difficult to distinguish between different isomers
of sesquiterpenes based on mass spectral matching alone, as
they fragment strongly upon ionization and have virtually in-
distinguishable mass spectra. Here we use peaks in three ion
traces that are unique to SQT204 (m/z 204, 189, 161) for
peak screening. Longifolene, β-caryophyllene and alloaro-
madendrene were identified and confirmed using authen-
tic standards. For all other SQT204, tentative identification
was made based on literature retention indices from Adams
(2007), and the response factor for these other sesquiterpenes
was taken to be the average of those of the 3 SQT204 in our
standard. One isomer cannot be positively identified and is
labeled as an unknown SQT204. The molecular structures of
some SQT204 are shown in Fig. 3.
In general, concentrations of sesquiterpenes are higher at
night, which is consistent with local emissions being trapped
in a shallow boundary layer, and with slower oxidation at
night. The dependence of sesquiterpene emission on sun-
light is complex and varies greatly between plant species
(Duhl et al., 2008), but is generally weaker than that of iso-
prene or MBO. It should be noted that sesquiterpene emis-
sions have a positive dependence on temperature (Duhl et al.,
2008), but daytime oxidation and boundary dynamics lead
to higher observed concentrations at night (Bouvier-Brown
et al., 2009a). The diurnal trends are also consistent with
the total concentrations of SQT204 measured by PTR-TOF-
MS (Fig. 4). β-caryophyllene is the most abundant SQT204
observed, comprising on average 20 % (median) of total
SQT204 mass concentrations. This observation is consis-
tent with previous plant enclosure studies, which have iden-
tified β-caryophyllene as a ubiquitous BVOC from many
plant species (Duhl et al., 2008; Ormeño et al., 2010). Other
SQT204, such as longifolene and α-humulene, were also ob-
served, albeit at lower concentrations. It should be noted that
a number of sesquiterpenes are more volatile than longifo-
lene (i.e., retention indices < 1400, c∗ > 2× 105 µg sm−3).
They are likely to be present but are not reliably measured
by this version of our instrument.
While the majority of the signals at SQT204 ions
(m/z 161, 189, 204) are attributed to the speciated SQT204,
there remains some signal close to baseline within the elu-
tion window for sesquiterpenes (retention indices between
1400 and 1600). We expect this signal to be derived from un-
speciated SQT204 that are not baseline-separated by the GC
column. To estimate the total concentrations of all SQT204,
high-resolution mass spectrometry was used to separate
SQT204 ions from other isobars. As an example, C15H+24,
C14H20O+ and C16H12+ all have the same nominal mass of
204, but only C15H+24 can be produced from SQT204. By ap-
plying high-resolution fitting procedures, C15H+24 can be dif-
ferentiated from other isobars not associated with SQT204.
The total C15H+24 signals within the elution window are then
integrated to provide an estimate of “total” SQT204 (spe-
ciated+ unspeciated). The unspeciated SQT204 is taken to
have a response factor equal to the average of all 3 SQT204
present in the standard (longifolene, β-caryophyllene, al-
loaromadendrene). Similar to the speciated SQT204, the un-
speciated SQT204 also show higher concentrations at night
and lower concentrations during the day, with daytime con-
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PTR-TOF-MS and by TAG during measurement overlap. (b) Diur-
nal profile of SQT204 concentration during the entire measurement
period of TAG (19–30 August) and PTR-TOF-MS (20 July–25 Au-
gust). The markers represent the mean concentration and the error
bars represent one standard deviation. The general diurnal trends
between the two instruments agree qualitatively, but are not ex-
pected to be quantitatively consistent owing to different sampling
locations.
centrations approximately 40 % lower than nighttime con-
centrations. This similarity suggests that the speciated and
unspeciated SQT204 likely have common sources or reac-
tion sinks.
The concentrations of total (speciated + unspeciated)
SQT204 measured by SV-TAG are shown in Fig. 4. The
median concentration of total SQT204 is 6.5 ng sm−3, or
0.7 pptv. As Fig. 4 shows, the diurnal trend correlated well
with that of PTR-TOF-MS measurements throughout the full
campaign (20 July–25 August). Also, the rise and fall in
concentrations on 23–24 August are well captured by most
measurements. The time trends of the two sets of measure-
ments are therefore qualitatively consistent, but it is not ex-
pected that they will agree quantitatively due to the differ-
ent sampling locations (both vertically and horizontally). As
noted previously, the SV-TAG inlet was at a height of 4 m
above ground, while the nearest PTR-TOF-MS inlet was at
a height of 1 m above ground, and the inlets were approx-
imately 25 m apart horizontally in an area with an uneven
distribution of trees. There is expected to be strong vertical
gradients in sesquiterpene concentrations, since active oxida-
tion by ozone within canopy has been inferred from signifi-
cant vertical and temporal gradients in ozone concentrations
at similar sites (Goldstein et al., 2004; Kurpius and Gold-
stein, 2003; Park et al., 2014; Jardine et al., 2011), and should
be strong horizontal gradients as a function of distance from
the source. Also, no attempt was made to remove ozone
from the SV-TAG filter cell since ozone denuders (such as
NaS2O3-impregnated honeycombs) will likely remove other
S/IVOCs. We cannot exclude losses of sesquiterpenes ad-
sorbed on to the SS fiber filter in the SV-TAG instrument
due to surface assisted ozonolysis during sampling. There
may also be some SQT204 more volatile than longifolene
that are not reliably captured by the focusing trap, leading
to underestimation of total SQT204 concentrations by SV-
TAG. To the authors’ best knowledge, this is the first work
comparing speciated SQT204 measurements with total SQT
measurements by PTR-TOF-MS. Since the diurnal trends of
SQT204 are consistent between the two measurement tech-
niques and with expected dependence on boundary layer
dynamics and oxidation chemistry, SQT204 concentrations
measured by SV-TAG reported here are taken to be lower
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limits and the time trends are representative of those of to-
tal SQT204. These measurements will be used to understand
the sources and assess the contribution of SQT204 to local
chemistry. However, further work should focus on reconcil-
ing the difference in absolute measurements between these
two techniques using co-located measurements.
It has been reported that sesquiterpene emissions can
increase significantly from mechanical disturbances (Arey
et al., 1995; Goldstein et al., 2004). There were no signifi-
cant precipitation or violent weather events during the 10-day
measurement period presented here. Our measurements ex-
tend beyond the official end of the field campaign on 25 Au-
gust 2011, during which many instruments were transported
out of the field site; however, no spikes in concentrations
were observed during that day, and the highest concentrations
were observed at night when traffic was the lowest. Therefore
our observations are not thought to be influenced by spikes
in concentrations caused by researchers’ activities (such as
plant enclosure setup) that are likely smoothed out with the
2 h time resolution. Therefore we expect the observed vari-
ability in concentrations to depend most strongly on meteo-
rology and oxidation chemistry.
In addition to SQT204, we also observed a variety of
sesquiterpenes with molecular formula of C15H22. Their
molecular weights are 202 amu and are hereafter referred to
as “SQT202”. Compared to the better-known SQT204, this
group of compounds likely has an additional double bond or
ring. Also, they have lower volatilities as they have longer
retention times in the GC column. Some isomers, such as cu-
parene and calamenene, contain an aromatic ring, while oth-
ers, such as β-vatirenene, do not. Some proposed molecular
structures are shown in Fig. 3. A few SQT202 isomers cannot
be positively identified. These unidentified isomers all have
strong signals at ions characteristic of SQT202 (m/z 202,
187, 159) and have mass spectra matching very well to the
same SQT202 entry in the mass spectral libraries (e.g., β-
vatirenene). Their retention times do not match any known
SQT202 in the literature. We have named them “β-vatirenene
isomer”, recognizing that these peaks are unknown isomers
of β-vatirenene or other SQT202.
The source of these SQT202 is likely biogenic, since they
are known to be present in essential oils (Adams, 2007). To
the authors’ best knowledge, this is the first study to report
observations of SQT202 in the ambient atmosphere. One
study has shown that cuparene is emitted by Arabidopsis
flowers during pollination (Chen et al., 2003). Calamenene
has also been identified in plant enclosure studies in a trop-
ical forest (Pankow et al., 2012) and from soil borne plant
pathogens (Fravel et al., 2002). Since we did not have au-
thentic standards for SQT202 during the field measurements,
we use the 3 SQT204 present in our standard (longifolene,
β-caryophyllene and alloaromadendrene) as surrogate stan-
dards for quantification of all SQT202. A post-campaign cal-
ibration was conducted on a similar HR-ToF mass spectrom-
eter using electron impact ionization (Chan et al., 2013), and
the response factors for a few C15H22 isomers were found to
be within 20 % of the SQT204 sesquiterpenes in the injection
standard.
Similar to SQT204, the observed SQT202 concentrations
are higher at night and lower during the day, which is con-
sistent with local emission sources and a dependence on
boundary layer dynamics and oxidation rates. Calamenene
and cuparene are the most abundant SQT202. The total
concentration of SQT202 was estimated using the same
high-resolution fitting procedures as described for SQT204.
The total concentration of SQT202 (1–23 ng sm−3, or 0.1–
2.8 pptv) is comparable to that of SQT204 (0–19 ng sm−3, or
0–2.3 pptv). The volatilities of SQT202 are expected to be
lower than those of SQT204, since they elute later from the
GC column. Using the observed concentrations of SQT204
and SQT202 reported here as lower limits, we estimate the
OH and ozone reactivities of these species at Manitou For-
est (see Sect. S14 in the Supplement). While the contribution
to OH reactivity is negligible, sesquiterpenes can dominate
ozone reactivity in the forest over other emitted species, such
as monoterpenes and MBO, owing to higher rate constants.
3.2 Higher order terpenoids and other biogenic
compounds
A number of compounds with diterpenoid backbones were
also observed in the atmosphere. They contain three fused
six-membered rings with an isopropyl group, which is the
same backbone as abietic acid and isopimaric acid. These
acids are the primary components of wood resin, and are used
as a chemical defense against insect and pathogenic fungi
and bacteria (Dewick, 1997). Among these diterpenoids are
norabietanes, abietanes, retene and methyl-retenes. These
compounds all have the abietane structures but contain fewer
than 20 carbon atoms. They have often been used as par-
ticle tracers of softwood combustion, which volatilizes the
resin and releases these compounds into the atmosphere (Si-
moneit, 2002). However, the observed concentrations did not
correlate with PTR-TOF-MS measurements of acetonitrile,
a frequently used biomass burning tracer (Holzinger et al.,
1999; de Gouw and Warneke, 2007). Temporal variations in
concentrations of diterpenoids were consistent from one day
to another, with concentrations peaking at night and decreas-
ing during the day. We did not observe any sudden changes
in concentrations, which one would expect from local fire
plumes. The diurnal trends of these compounds are simi-
lar to those of sesquiterpenes mentioned earlier, suggesting
they are directly emitted from the local vegetation rather than
from biomass burning.
Some oxygen-containing biogenic compounds were also
observed. These include longicamphenylone, manoyl oxide,
coumarin, dehydroabietic acid methyl ester and benzophe-
none. Many of these compounds are found in essential oils
or plant extracts and were identified based on matching to
essential oil mass spectral database (Adams, 2007). At the
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same time, longicamphenylone may also be a reaction prod-
uct of longifolene and ozone (Isaacman et al., 2011b). Based
on correlation of time series alone, the relative contribu-
tions of primary and secondary sources cannot be defini-
tively identified. Manoyl oxide has also been previously ob-
served in the Finnish coniferous forest (Anttila et al., 2005).
It should be noted that many secondary products of monoter-
pene oxidation (such as verbenone, pinonaldehyde etc.) have
volatilities greater than that of n-tetradecane, or are too oxi-
dized to elute from the GC column, and therefore would not
be measured by this instrument.
3.3 Alkanes
Alkanes ranging from C14 to C25 were also observed during
the field campaign. All of the observed n-alkanes were quan-
tified using authentic standards. Two branched alkanes, pris-
tane and phytane, were also observed and quantified. Pris-
tane and phytane are commonly associated with petrogenic
sources, and have often been used as tracers for diesel ex-
haust in urban air quality studies (Rogge et al., 1993). Other
alkanes in this volatility range are also emitted from incom-
plete combustion of fossil fuels (Gentner et al., 2012). While
plant wax is expected to contribute a large amount of C27,
C29 and C31 n-alkanes (Eglinton et al., 1962), they were not
measured in the deployed version of our instrument because
they were below the targeted volatility range. Among the n-
alkanes, C14–C14 and C21–C23 n-alkanes are the most abun-
dant, with median concentrations around 1 ng sm−3 for each
alkane.
In the extracted ion chromatograms for alkane ions
(m/z 43, 57, 71), there is an observed “hump” of unresolved
compounds. This group of hydrocarbons, commonly known
as the unresolved complex mixture (UCM), is comprised of
a large number of branched and cyclic hydrocarbon isomers
(Chan et al., 2013). The UCM is a common feature of petro-
genic mixtures, such as diesel and motor oil, suggesting that
anthropogenic activities contributed petrogenic S/IVOCs at
this site. At the end of the field campaign, moving trucks for
other field instruments did not appear to cause significant in-
creases in n-alkane or UCM signals on 25 August 2011. We
therefore expect that the observed variability in alkane sig-
nals (on 2 h timescales) is derived from a regional source and
the contribution from local emissions is relatively small.
Semivolatile n-alkanes have also been observed at other
forest sites. Filter samples collected at a Scots Pine for-
est in Finland showed individual n-alkane concentrations
around 0–10 ng m−3 for C11 to C28 n-alkanes (Rissanen
et al., 2006). It should be noted that the SV-TAG cell has a
significantly larger surface area than quartz filters for adsorp-
tion of organic vapors (Zhao et al., 2013b) and the collection
is reproducible, distinguishing these measurements from ob-
served partial adsorption onto traditional filters. The potential
sources of alkanes at this field site will be discussed later in
this manuscript.
3.4 PAHs and PACs
In addition to n-alkanes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAHs) and other polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs)
were also observed at this field site. Many of these com-
pounds are positively identified with authentic standards, and
other PAHs are identified with great certainty using mass
spectral and retention time matching, given the tendency of
these species to present a strong molecular ion upon EI ion-
ization. The most volatile PAH observed was dimethylnaph-
thalene, and chrysene was the least volatile PAH observed.
Other PACs include oxygen-containing compounds and 2
sulfur-containing compounds (dibenzothiophenes).
Phenanthrene, chrysene and biphenyl are the most abun-
dant PAHs, with median concentrations of 0.9, 0.7, and
0.4 ng sm−3 (or 0.12, 0.07, and 0.07 pptv), respectively. The
total concentrations of identified PAHs range from 6.2 to
16.2 ng sm−3 (10th–90th percentile). The most abundant
PACs are oxygen-containing compounds (anthraquinone,
9(H)-fluorenone and dibenzofuran) with median concentra-
tions around 1 ng sm−3 or 0.1 pptv. PAHs and PACs are gen-
erally more abundant during the day, exhibiting a different
diurnal trend from the locally emitted sesquiterpenes (see
Fig. S11 in the Supplement). PACs are frequently associated
with incomplete combustion and their potential sources will
be discussed later in the manuscript.
4 Total mass and volatility distribution
One of the key factors controlling SOA formation is precur-
sor and product volatility (Pankow, 1994). The distribution
of organic compounds in the S/IVOC range is poorly known,
but is important for modeling organic aerosol and gas evo-
lution. Here the volatility distribution of eluted organic com-
pounds can be constructed from the total ion chromatograms,
since GC retention time, tR, is related to volatility.N -alkanes
are linearly spaced in retention time, and, using their known
vapor pressures, the total organic signal is grouped into bins
of n-alkane-equivalent volatilities. To estimate the total mass
of organic compounds eluting from the column at a given
retention time, the high-resolution mass spectrometry data
were used. We restrict our analysis to only hydrocarbon-like
ions CxH+y , which are most amenable to GC analysis. The
calibration factor used to convert CxH+y ion signal to organic
mass is calculated from the average calibration factor derived
from external standard calibrations. Based on the range of
calibration factors obtained for the different external stan-
dards, this method is expected to be accurate to ± 40 %.
The median volatility distribution of hydrocarbons is
shown in Fig. 5. The total gas-phase concentration of
hydrocarbon-like species with volatilities between that of
tetradecane and hexacosane is approximately 0.7 µg sm−3,
a factor of 3–4 lower than the total amount of organic
aerosol (an average of 2.5 µg sm−3) measured by the AMS
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served by SV-TAG. The whiskers represent the standard deviation
of the measurements. The volatility distribution was calculated us-
ing fitting of high-resolution mass spectrometry data, and the vapor
pressures are estimated from retention times of n-alkanes.
(Ortega et al., 2014). The mass concentration of hydrocar-
bons generally decreases with volatility, except in the range
of C19–C23, which is consistent with the UCM observed from
the total ion chromatogram. It should be noted that typically
without derivatization, less than 50 % of the total organic
mass elute from the GC column (Rogge et al., 1993). The
remaining gas-phase organic mass is likely comprised of ox-
idized products that do not elute from the GC column. The
fraction of elutable organic material is likely even lower in
more biogenically influenced environments, where S/IVOCs
are likely more oxidized. To improve recovery of oxygenated
compounds from the GC for better estimation of organic
mass and volatility distribution, derivatization of oxygenated
compounds is likely needed and have been incorporated into
future designs of TAG-AMS (Isaacman et al., 2014).
5 Source apportionment of S/IVOCs: positive matrix
factorization
PMF was used to help determine the sources of S/IVOCs
measured by the SV-TAG. The optimum number of factors
was chosen based on interpretability of factors, and a three-
factor solution was determined with fPEAK (a tool to ex-
plore rotation of solutions) of 0. The value of Q/Qexp (ob-
jective function for minimization) was equal to 2.32, indicat-
ing that the error estimates used in the PMF solution were
reasonable (Ulbrich et al., 2009). As recommended by Ul-
brich et al. (2009), two-factor and four-factor solutions were
also explored. The four-factor solution splits factor 1 (bio-
genic I/SVOCs) into two factors composed of different com-
pounds. The correlations with external tracers were found to
be quite similar, suggesting that although the factors contain
different compounds, they likely represent the same sources.
In the two-factor solution, factors 2 and 3 (from the three-
factor solution) are convolved. These factors have different
time profiles, with factor 2 dominating in the first half of
the measurement period, and factor 3 rising in contribution
towards the latter half. The difference in time profiles sug-
gests two different sources. A three-factor solution is there-
fore chosen.
The physical interpretation of the factors is first evaluated
by examining the organic species associated with the fac-
tor (shown in Fig. 6), which provides chemical information
about the source type and/or atmospheric processes repre-
sented by the factor. The diurnal profiles, wind rose profiles
(shown in Fig. 7), back trajectory analyses (Fig. 8) and cor-
relations with TAG measurements (Table S4) and other mea-
surements (Fig. 9), such as aerosol species and trace gases,
are then used to support the interpretations.
5.1 Factor 1: biogenic S/IVOCs
This factor is primarily composed of biogenic compounds,
including both SQT202 and SQT204, diterpenes, and many
of their structural analogs. The oxygenated compounds
found in this factor include coumarin, longicamphenylone
and manoyl oxide. While these compounds are potentially
atmospheric oxidation products, they are also found in plant
oil extracts and are potentially primary emissions (Adams,
2007). Given the high correlation of this factor with the
concentrations of primary biogenic hydrocarbons, this factor
therefore represents primary biogenic emissions of I/SVOCs.
It is also likely that the fast reactions of sesquiterpene with
ozone led to the grouping of reaction products with its
precursors. The factor diurnal profile also follows that of
monoterpenes. The factor is highest during the night and low-
est during the day, consistent with daytime dilution in the
boundary layer and destruction by photochemical reactions.
Factor 1 also has the strongest anticorrelation with wind
speed (r =−0.5), suggesting that the concentrations build up
as a result of local emissions when mixing is at its minimum.
The wind profile of factor 1, which indicates the average fac-
tor signal for each wind direction (in 30◦ bins), is shown in
Fig. 7. Factor 1 is highest when the winds are coming from
the pine forests to the west of the field site. As noted ear-
lier, wind from that wind sector tends to be dominant during
nighttime when the boundary layer is shallow. Back trajec-
tory analysis was conducted using HYSPLIT to investigate
the history of the air masses arriving at the field site (Draxler
and Rolph, 2013). Two periods during which factor 1 shows
the strongest signal were chosen (see Fig. 8, trajectories 1
and 4). These two periods represented pristine air arriving
from the high-altitude forests from the west, carrying bio-
genic emissions to the field site.
Factor 1 also shows strong correlations with measure-
ments of other primary biogenic species. It is most corre-
lated with monoterpenes (r = 0.41), sesquiterpenes (0.51)
and methanol (0.36) measured by the PTR-TOF-MS. The
correlation with secondary species, such as acetaldehyde and
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prised of anthropogenic pollutants such as PAHs and PACs. Factor 3 may represent a mixed source of anthropogenic and biogenic compounds.
methacrolein/MVK is weaker, since these oxidation products
are formed during the day, when factor 1 is lowest. Similarly,
MBO and isoprene emissions are strongly dependent on sun-
light and temperature, and, as a result, their concentrations
are typically higher during the day, despite the deeper bound-
ary layer (Ortega et al., 2014). As a result, there is no positive
correlation with the factor 1 signal (r =−0.18). Factor 1 is
also strongly correlated with relative humidity and anticor-
related with temperature, likely owing to the higher concen-
trations of biogenic species at night when the temperature is
low and RH is high. As discussed earlier, wood burning is
not expected to be the source of these species, since factor 1
is not correlated with acetonitrile (r =−0.53), a commonly
used biomass-burning tracer.
Moving to a four-factor solution splits this biogenic fac-
tor into two: one factor contains two more volatile sesquiter-
penes (longifolene and β-caryophyllene), while the other
factor is composed of the other biogenic compounds. There
may be subtle differences in sources and sinks between these
two SQT204 and other biogenic compounds, but the phys-
ical meanings of the two factors cannot be distinguished at
this point, since their correlations with external tracers are
very similar. Using a longer measurement period with more
samples, one could potentially identify two different sources
or sinks in this area: one for the emissions of longifolene and
β-caryophyllene and the other for SQT202 and higher order
biogenic compounds.
5.2 Factor 2: temperature-dependent volatilization and
urban transport of S/IVOCs
Factor 2 contains many known anthropogenic compounds, in
particular PAHs and PACs (cf. Table S4). The correlation co-
efficient r ranges between 0.66 (methylanthracene) and 0.91
(fluorene) for PAHs and 0.73 (methyl-dibenzothiophene)
and 0.96 (methyl-dibenzofuran) for oxygenated PACs. How-
ever, other oxygenated PACs, such as anthraquinone and
naphthalic anhydride, have a higher correlation with fac-
tor 3. Interestingly, although factor 2 contains many alka-
nes, the correlation coefficients are significantly lower than
those for PAHs, ranging from 0.3 (n-tetradecane) to 0.75 (n-
octadecane). The exceptions are pristane and phytane, which
are generally considered petroleum markers and are indica-
tive of vehicular emissions (Rogge et al., 1993). These two
compounds are grouped into factor 2, with r of 0.79 and 0.78,
respectively. The correlation of factor 2 with biogenic com-
pounds is negative in some cases and weak in others.
Given the strong correlation with anthropogenic com-
pounds and poor correlation with biogenic compounds, this
factor is most likely associated with anthropogenic pollu-
tants in the area. The field site is situated in a forest with
very limited nearby traffic or combustion emissions, and un-
like the locally emitted terpenoid compounds in factor 1,
factor 2 reaches its maximum during the day and minimum
at night (Fig. 7). Interestingly, although this factor contains
mostly anthropogenic PAHs and PACs, its diurnal profile is
somewhat different from that of trace gas pollutants, such as
CO, SO2 and NOx . Factor 2 begins to rise at around 10:00,
reaches its maximum around early afternoon, and drops af-
ter 20:00. CO, NOx and SO2 also rise at around 10:00, but
peak later in the afternoon and do not drop until after 20:00
(see Fig. S11). Instead, factor 2 has the highest correlation
with ozone and temperature. The strong positive correla-
tion with temperature suggests that a temperature-dependent
volatilization process governs the variability of PAHs and
PACs. Figure S12 shows the Clausius–Clapeyron plot of a
few PAHs and PACs in factor 2. The enthalpy for volatiliza-
tion (1H ∗) of each compound is derived from the slope of its
Clausius–Clapeyron relation. For compounds that are asso-
ciated with factor 2, the derived 1H ∗ range between 20 and
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grey markers represent factor signals for the entire sampling period
(grouped by hour of day); the dark line and markers represent diel
averages, and the error bars represent one standard deviation. The
wind profiles are average factor signals grouped by average wind di-
rections. Factor 1 is strongest during the night and during transport
from forests to the west and south of the field site, consistent with
local biogenic emissions. Factor 2 appears to be strongest during the
day, and likely originates from a temperature-dependent volatiliza-
tion process (see Fig. S12). It may also represent compounds trans-
ported from developed areas to the east. Factor 3 appears to be have
mixed sources.
80 kJ mol−1 (see Table S13). For compounds where literature
values are available (Bamford et al., 1999; Chickos and Han-
shaw, 2004; Roux et al., 2008), these values are generally
lower than experimental enthalpies of vaporization, 1Hvap,
but are remarkably consistent with Henry’s law enthalpies
(1HH). Our 1H ∗ values are also consistent with those de-
rived from 2 years of field measurements in the Athabasca oil
sands region (Hsu et al., 2015). The agreement with Henry’s
law enthalpies suggests that factor 2 represents SVOCs par-
titioning between the atmosphere and sources such as bod-
ies of water or soil, and their atmospheric concentrations are
determined by temperature-dependent volatilization. Lower
values of 1H ∗ can also be a result of long-range transport,
which reduces the apparent dependence of concentrations on
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the graph are the periods for which HYSPLIT back trajectories
are calculated. (b) 12 h back trajectories calculated using HYSPLIT
(Draxler and Rolph, 2013).
temperature and shallower slope in the Clausius–Clapeyron
plot (Wania et al., 1998).
The role of transport in factor 2 is also suggested by its
positive correlation with wind speed (0.50). This factor has
the highest loading when the wind direction is SE or NE
(Fig. 7). This factor can therefore be associated with the up-
slope flow from the east, carrying urban pollutants up the
valley to the field site. Back trajectory analysis using HYS-
PLIT shows that during two periods when factor 2 contri-
bution is high, the air masses arriving at the field site had
travelled from the Denver metropolitan area upslope to the
field site (Fig. 8, trajectories 2 and 5). Therefore, the source
of S/IVOCs in factor 2 is a combination of volatilization from
secondary sources (soils, bodies of water) and transport from
nearby urban areas.
While factor 2 appears to have a positive correlation with
acetonitrile (0.48), it has a poor correlation with f60 mea-
sured by AMS, a common tracer of fresh biomass burning-
related organic aerosol (Schneider et al., 2006; Cubison et al.,
2011), even after accounting for background signal ofm/z 60
from aged SOA by subtracting 0.3 % of OA from the m/z 60
signal (Cubison et al., 2011). The trends in factor signal are
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and meteorological parameters, and (c) volatile organic compounds measured by PTR-TOF-MS. Correlation coefficients of PMF factors
with TAG compounds are shown in Table S4. f60,sub refers to the fraction of m/z 60 after subtraction of background SOA (0.3 % of AMS
organic concentration).
also quite consistent from one day to another, suggesting that
it is unrelated to sporadic fire events (forest fire or camp-
fires). Given the temporal trend, the correlation with acetoni-
trile could imply minor contribution from aged wood smoke.
5.3 Factor 3: mixed urban transport and biogenic
emissions
Factor 3 may share a similar source as factor 2, since the
two-factor solution combines these two factors, and their di-
urnal profiles are similar, with minimum concentrations oc-
curring at night. However, the differences between daytime
and nighttime concentrations are smaller than that for fac-
tor 2. The correlations between factor 3 and anthropogenic
tracers, such as CO and SO2, while positive, are generally
weak (r < 0.3). Therefore, although factor 3 has contribu-
tions from urban emissions, the source of the S/IVOCs or the
transport processes are likely different from those of factor 2.
In the compound profiles, factors 2 and 3 both contain n-
alkanes and some PACs. The two factors differ in PAHs, most
of which are correlated with factor 2 but not with factor 3. In-
stead, factor 3 is correlated with oxygenated compounds such
as tetradecenoic acid, anthraquinone and two phthalates. An-
thraquinone and naphthalic anhydride are likely to be sec-
ondary oxidation products, and phthalates have long atmo-
spheric lifetimes. Therefore we hypothesize that factor 3 rep-
resents anthropogenic S/IVOCs that have undergone longer-
range transport and thus further oxidation than those associ-
ated with factor 2, and are likely part of the regional back-
ground signal.
In addition, factor 3 has stronger contributions from many
n-alkanes than factor 2. The n-alkanes associated with fac-
tor 3 are unlikely to be petrogenic, since pristane and phy-
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tane are not associated with factor 3. The high correlations
with alkenoic acids are notable, with strong correlations with
tetradecenoic acid (r = 0.60) and hexadecenoic acid (r =
0.64). Plant wax contains even-numbered n-alkenoic acids
and odd-numbered n-alkanes, which can be emitted into the
atmosphere (Rogge et al., 1993). The back trajectory of an
air mass arriving when factor 3 is strong suggests a mix of
rural air (carrying long-lived biogenic compounds) with air
from more developed areas to the east (with anthropogenic
pollutants). We therefore hypothesize that in addition to the
regional background, there may be some contribution from
plant wax emissions to this factor. The biogenic compounds
in factor 3 have longer atmospheric lifetimes than sesquiter-
penes, and can therefore be mixed with the regional back-
ground signal.
6 Conclusions
In this work, we present speciated, highly time-resolved mea-
surements of semivolatile and intermediate volatile organic
compounds in the high-altitude pine forest. The chemical
composition is complex, consisting of more than 80 com-
pounds spanning 5 orders of magnitude in volatility. Sev-
eral of these compounds were discovered in the ambient at-
mosphere for the first time, including sesquiterpenes with
molecular formulas of C15H22 and higher order terpenoids.
We conclude these compounds are derived from plant emis-
sions since they have previously been identified in plant oil
extracts. Statistical analysis using PMF provides further evi-
dence, as their wind and diurnal profiles are consistent with
local emissions from the forest. Future laboratory experi-
ments should focus on understanding the atmospheric kinet-
ics of newly discovered compounds, such as cuparene and
calamenene.
Anthropogenic compounds are also found to be significant
at this rural site. While it is often assumed that observed pol-
lutants are transported from urban areas, our results show
that the local concentrations of anthropogenic SVOCs, such
as PAHs and alkanes, are also influenced by volatilization
processes from local reservoirs. Many SVOCs are expected
to be efficient SOA precursors, but such evaporation pro-
cesses have not been studied in detail and not included in
current models. The urban influence has also been demon-
strated for other pollutants at this field site, such as NOxand SOx (Fry et al., 2013; Ortega et al., 2014). The inter-
actions between anthropogenic pollutants and biogenic hy-
drocarbons have been proposed to be a significant source of
global secondary organic aerosol (Carlton et al., 2010; Hoyle
et al., 2011; Spracklen et al., 2011). For example, oxidation
of MBO (a biogenic hydrocarbon) in the presence of sul-
fate aerosol (an anthropogenic pollutant) leads to formation
of MBO-organosulfate, which has been observed at this site
(Zhang et al., 2012). More speciated measurements of bio-
genic and anthropogenic hydrocarbons and their oxidation
products are needed to study these biogenic–anthropogenic
interactions.
The Supplement related to this article is available online
at doi:10.5194/acp-16-1187-2016-supplement.
Acknowledgements. The authors would like to acknowledge
funding from the National Science Foundation (Rapid Award
Number 1135745), Department of Energy (SBIR Award Number
DE-FG02-08ER85160) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF
project number L518-N20). The authors would like to thank
Andrew Turnipseed for use of trace gas and meteorological mea-
surements and Brett Palm, Amber Ortega, and Patrick Hayes for
use of AMS measurements. The authors would also like to thank
Jim Smith, John Ortega, and NCAR for organizing the logistics
of BEACHON-RoMBAS 2011. P. Campuzano-Jost, D. A. Day,
and J. L. Jimenez were supported by NSF AGS-1243354, NOAA
NA13OAR4310063, and DOE(BER/ASR) DE-SC0011105.
L. Kaser is a recipient of a DOC-fFORTE Fellowship of the
Austrian Academy of Science.
Edited by: J. Rinne
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